кӧмӱр

Southern Altai

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *kömür. Cognate with Kazakh көмір (kömır), Kyrgyz көмүр (kömür), Crimean Tatar kömür, Kumyk кёмюр (kömür), Azerbaijani kömür, Turkish kömür, Turkmen kömür, Uzbek koʻmir, Khakas кӧмір (kömìr), Shor кӧбӱр, Tuvan хөмүр (xömür), Western Yugur kʰemïr, etc.

Noun

кӧмӱр • (kömür)

  1. coal

Etymology 2

From Earlier [Term?], from Proto-Turkic *köpürüg.

Noun

кӧмӱр • (kömür)

  1. bridge

References

  • page:212”, in Grammatika Altajskovo Jazyka [Altaic language Grammar], Kazan: V universtiteskoj til, 1869, →ISBN
  • Räsänen, Martti (1969), Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura
  • Sevortjan, E. V.; Levitskaja, L. S. (1989), Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow: Nauka, page 113